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October 6, 2025 11:04 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday tasked his outgoing prime minister, who had resigned earlier in the day, to hold last-ditch talks with other political parties to try and chart a path out of the crisis. Sebastien Lecornu had tendered his g...
October 6, 2025 2:56 PM
France's new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu and his government resigned on Monday, hours after Lecornu announced his cabinet line-up, making it the shortest-lived in modern French history, driving stocks and the euro sharply lower. Theswift resign...
October 6, 2025 3:11 PM
Iran is in discussions on the release of two French citizens it detained in May 2022 in exchange for an Iranian citizen detained by France, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday. Baghaei added that Paris had never info...
October 5, 2025 9:46 AM
French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu plans a tax targeting individuals with annual incomes of over 250,000 euros to try to win the Socialist opposition's backing for his government's 2026 state budget, financial daily Les Echos said on Saturday. ...
September 30, 2025 6:45 PM
French companies are fine-tuning plans for stratospheric spy balloons and airships as competition heats up in the no man's land between the atmosphere and outer space, tipped as the next potential zone of tensions between world powers. Stratobus, ow...
September 10, 2025 4:09 PM
Sebastien Lecornu, the loyalist picked by President Emmanuel Macron to be France's fifth prime minister in two years, took office on a day of sprawling anti-government protests on Wednesday that underlined the depth of the country's political crisis....
September 11, 2025 1:00 PM
Protesters across France obstructed highways, burned barricades and clashed sporadically with police on Wednesday in a show of anger against President Emmanuel Macron, the political elite and planned spending cuts. Authorities deployed more than 80,...
September 10, 2025 1:01 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron named loyalist Sebastien Lecornu, a one-time conservative protege who rallied behind his 2017 presidential run, as prime minister on Tuesday, defying expectations he might tack towards the left. The choice of Lecornu...
September 9, 2025 2:51 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking his fifth prime minister in less than two years after opposition parties united to kick out centre-right Prime Minister Francois Bayrou over his unpopular plans for budget tightening. Bayrou, handed a 364-...
September 9, 2025 10:10 AM
The challenge French President Emmanuel Macron faces in choosing his fifth prime minister in under two years lays bare the depth of a political crisis that in many ways is of his own making, and one with no clear path out. Francois Bayrou is set to ...
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